OT: 4 or 5 ***** movies....

[DAWG61]

Let's have a little fun on a slow Wednesday. Rules of the game. Name 3 movies that you consider 4 or 5 star material, a must watch movie that you personally enjoy and recommend for all to see. Once a poster lists a movie it doesn't count for your 3 and any sequels of the movie are taken with the first mention of it. How many movies can we all agree on?

1. Saving Private Ryan

2. Pulp Fiction

3. Moneyball

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

hmmmmmm....

1. The Bear - 1984
2. The Junction Boys - 2002
3. Forest Gump - 1994

Honorable Mention - Gamechanger - 2010



for realz: Full Metal Jacket, The Matrix, Office Space all came to mind...

 

[Coach34]

1. Goodfellas

2. Big Jake

3. Casino

 

[Shmuley]

1. Tombstone. 2. Animal House. 3. Bourne Trilogy

 

[croomsGolfCart]

1. Caddyshack

2. We Were Soldiers

3. Coach Carter

Really enjoy a good horror movie also
Dead Silence, Paranormal Activity, and Sinister are all good ones in my opinion .

 

[1msucub]

1. The Shawshank Redemption 2. Blackhawk Down 3. The Unforgiven

Tombstone would've been in but the Rabbi had stole it

 

[DEEREdawg]

1. Blazin Saddles
2.Smokey and the Bandit (RIP Jackie Gleason)
3.Rudy

 

[DISTRICT DOG]

1. Shawshank Redemption (just saw where someone else posted it)
2. The Departed
3. Family Vacation (almost all were hilarious)

 

[TeedOff]

To End All Wars, The Patriot, Braveheart. *

nm

 

[seshomoru]

1.Monty Python & the HG 2.Breaking Away 3. Star Wars

 

[mcdawg22]

1. The Usual Suspects 2. The Dark Knight (Just superb) 3. American History X

 

[PONYfun]

Hmmmm. This is tough, and I have thought about it a lot. It is easier to give a top 3 in certain categories. But, since that wasn't asked I will give three very different movies that all get 5 stars from me.

1.) Dazed and Confused
2.) Gladiator
3.) Stand by Me

 

[KennyPowers2]

In Bruges , transformers, and open range

 

[MagnoliaHunter]

Cool Hand Luke, A Bridge Too Far, The Outlaw Josey Wales.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Die Hard
Jaws
The Godfather

 

[RobbieRandolph]

Top Gun. Lord of the Rings. Home Alone.

eta: Remove Hoosiers.

 

[FISHDAWG]

Patton - The Good, Bad, Ugly - Debbie does Dallas

.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

1. The Third Man; 2. Citizen Kane; 3. The Best Years of Our Lives

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Forest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Hunt For Red October.

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[aTotal360]

all of LOTR. Goodfellas. Rudy.

 

[redbird4state]

Big Jake= Some of John Wayne's best work

 

[Dawgpile]

Raising Arizona, Apocalypse Now, Green Mile

I'm all over the place, I know....

 

[Diamondhead Reb]

Green Mile, A Few Good Men, The Firm

DesotoCountyDawg had 3 good ones too.

 

[Wooly17er]

1) The Longest Day
2) The Dirty Dozen
3) Anchorman
HM) Saving Silverman - this is honestly one of the most underrated comedies of this or any generation.

 

[gtowndawg]

I'm willing to bet I'm the only other person on this board

that's seen all three of those.

 

[Rockydawg]

Into The Wild
The Outsiders
At Close Range

BOOM.

 

[roengardner]

Rounders, Snatch, Scary Movie

Tombstone would be #1

 

[Buford T. Justice]

Animal House, Smokey and the Bandit, Toy Story trilogy

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Yeah, I'll admit that I chose the first two films largely because of my avatar but there's a *lot* of pre-1960s films I could recommend. Thank you, Bob Arnett.

 

[Hoo22]

1. Saving Private Ryan - the best WWII film I've ever seen, and one of the best films ever

2. Casino - no body plays a better gangster than Joe Pesci

3. Stand By Me - great growing up movie

Honorable Mention - Schindler's List is an amazing movie, but tough to watch too often. Goodfellas, see above re Joe Pesci. Braveheart/The Patriot - Mel is a British killing machine

 

[MSDawg35-1]

Crimson Tide
Indiana Jones Raiders
Defiance

Eta oops only 3

 

[BehrDawg]

1) LOTR Trilogy 2) Star Wars 3) Gladiator

 

[Dawg Jurist]

(1) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (2) Inglourious Basterds (3) Rocky

**I would have included Shawshank, The Godfather

The original The Longest Yard gets an honorable mention

Edited to add, It would have been funny to put "(1) Faherenheit 9/11 (2) Capitalism: A Love Story and (3) Sicko" just to see if I could incite a riot which would end up in a locked thread.

 

[FQDawg]

My top 3:

Once a poster lists a movie it doesn't count for your 3 and any sequels of the movie are taken with the first mention of it. How many movies can we all agree on?

How can we tell if we all agree on a movie if we can't repeat one that someone else has already listed?

Anyway, my top 3, regardless of whether or not anyone else has listed them:

1. The Princess Bride
2. The Goonies
3. Tombstone

 

[TeedOff]

You would lose... *

nm

 

[LawDawg97]

Clear and Present Danger (Drama), My Cousin Vinny (Comedy) and

The Silence of the Lambs (Crime/Thriller).

My actual Top 3 were taken, but these are 3 good ones. My Cousin Vinny, while a comedy, portrays courtroom procedure much more accurately than most serious movies do.

 

[SanfordRJones]

Am I the only Coen Brothers fan on this board?

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Fargo
3. Barton Fink

 

[missouridawg]

My top 3 would've

been 1) Forrest Gump 2) Shawshank Redemption 3) Bourne Trilogy... but those were all obviously taken.

Speaking of taken... my next 3 would be

1) Taken
2) Life (with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence - hilarious comedy)
3) Ocean's Eleven (loved this one, 12 and 13 not so much)

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

1. Casablanca
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. Chinatown

 

[DAWG61]

The purpose of not repeating the same movies over and over is so you don't have to read the same ones over and over. Tombstone and Shawshank Redemption are wonderful movies. We know. Pick new ones please. It makes the game more difficult as you go.